ABSTRACT The growing popularity that postmodern positions have achieved in the social sciences since the 1970s has brought with it a transformation in the way in which critique is understood and exercised. This has resulted in a ‘weak’ form of critique that, seeking to avoid authoritarian or arbitrary impositions, rejects the evaluative and normative aspirations that had traditionally characterized critical social sciences. In this paper, one of its most sophisticated versions is examined: ‘non-normative critique’ (NNC). First, I reconstruct its proposal, presenting its most distinguishing features. Second, my main argument is offered: NNC is both impossible – because it is based on irresolvable contradictions – and undesirable – because its relativism makes it unfit for emancipatory praxis. The paper finishes with the proposal of the key pillars over which a renewed form of normative critique could be constructed and justified.

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收回社会科学中的批评-或为什么“非规范性批评”在术语上构成矛盾

摘要自1970年代以来，后现代立场在社会科学领域中的日渐普及，带来了对批判的理解和实践方式的转变。这导致了一种“弱”的批判形式，该批判试图避免独裁或武断的施加，拒绝了传统上具有批判性社会科学特征的评价和规范愿望。本文研究了其最复杂的版本之一：“非规范性批判”（NNC）。首先，我重新提出其建议，并提出其最鲜明的特征。其次，我的主要论点是：NNC既不可能，因为它基于无法解决的矛盾，又是不可取的，因为它的相对主义使其不适合解放实践。